STRANSKY Mara

Date of Birth: 13 Feb 1999

Age: 22

Gender: Female

Birth Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Sailing	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial	14

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Kamakura	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 01 #1	Finished
Followed by	Kamakura	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 02 #2	Finished
	Enoshima	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 03 #3	Finished
Followed by	Enoshima	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 04 #4	Finished
	Fujisawa	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 05 #5	Finished
Followed by	Fujisawa	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 06 #6	Finished
	Fujisawa	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 07 #7	Finished
Followed by	Fujisawa	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 08 #8	Finished
	Enoshima	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 09 #9	Finished
Followed by	Enoshima	Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial - Race 10 #10	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
62	Laser Radial	2018	Aarhus, DEN

Class World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
18	Laser Radial	2020	Melbourne, VIC, AUS
42	Laser Radial	2019	Sakaiminato, JPN
43	Laser Radial	2017	Medemblik, NED

Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Laser Radial	2019	Genoa, ITA
25	Laser Radial	2020	Enoshima, JPN
30	Laser Radial	2019	Enoshima, JPN

Class World Championships Juniors

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Laser Radial	2019	Split, CRO
9	Laser Radial	2018	Gdynia, POL
13	Laser Radial	2017	Nieuwpoort, BEL

Stran (Instagram profile, 28 Mar 2020)

Spending time with friends and family. (laserinternational.org, 16 Oct 2019)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron [Australia]

Sporting relatives:

Her parents have competed in monohulls and multihull catamaran sailing at regattas in Asia and Oceania. (mysailing.com.au, 24 Jun 2019)

An injury caused her to miss the early part of the 2019 season. (laserinternational.org, 16 Oct 2019)

She grew up on a boat, but began sailing competitively in 2015 at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. (laserinternational.org, 16 Oct 2019; mysailing.com.au, 24 Jun 2019)

"I have grown up living on a boat. Apparently my first yacht race was when I was five months old. People ask me, 'What do you do on a boat?' and I'm like, 'What do you do in a house?'" (laserinternational.org, 16 Oct 2019; news.com.au, 23 Aug 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Outside the sport she would like to attend college, earn an engineering degree and have a career in renewable energy. (marastransky004.wixsite.com, 30 Mar 2020; laserinternational.org, 16 Oct 2019; mysailing.com.au, 24 Jun 2019)

Competing at the 2017 World Championships in Medemblik, Netherlands. (laserinternational.org, 16 Oct 2019)

Australian sailor Tom Slingsby, British sailor Ellen MacArthur, French sailors Francis Joyon and Michel Desjoyeaux. (laserinternational.org, 16 Oct 2019; mysailing.com.au, 24 Jun 2019)

Her parents and coach Ash Brunning. (Facebook page, 18 Mar 2020)

Philosophy:

"I'm incredibly thankful I am to be able to pursue this dream. Even though Laser Radial is a single-handed sport, everything about it requires teamwork. I'm a firm believer in everything being more fun if there's an element of impossibility about it." (laserinternational.org, 16 Oct 2019)

General Interest

General
SAILING GENES
Born into a sailing family, her parents Andrew and Carolyn had been circumnavigating the world on an Adams 13 catamaran boat for 17 years before Mara was born in 1999. At age four months her mother brought her from Australia, where she was born, to rejoin Andrew on the yacht based in the Canary Islands, Spain. "Having enjoyed such a sailing-oriented upbringing, the decision to pursue professional sailing after I finished school seemed fairly logical. After returning to Australia for the Multihull Nationals, which we won [2014], I decided I wanted my own boat so started sailing the Laser Standard, because I didn't know any better, and didn't like to lose, before stepping down to the Laser Radial as I was still only 55kg." (Instagram profile, 28 Mar 2020; laserinternational.org, 16 Oct 2019; mysailing.com.au, 24 Jun 2019; yachtsandyachting.com, 09 Aug 2014)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/mstra641
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/mara.156739/
https://instagram.com/marastransky/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mara-stransky-03904481/
Athlete Website: https://marastransky004.wixsite.com/marastranskysailing/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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